Cognitive Therapy: Basic Principles and Applications

Today, under pressure from managed care companies as well as from patients who are demanding briefer and more focused treatments, therapists are creatively combining cognitive and psychodynamic approaches and obtaining unprecedented therapeutic results. In this volume, Robert Leahy describes Aaron Beck's seminal model of depression, anxiety, anger, and relationship conflict and shows how each of these problems is handled by the cognitive therapist in the context of an interactive therapeutic relationship. Leahy demonstrates how uncovering resistance to change and using the therapeutic relationship enhances recovery and promotes rapid change. With concrete examples he shows how to implement all of the basic cognitive techniques.

• | Author: Robert L. Leahy
• | Publisher: Jason Aronson
• | Publication Date: Dec 01, 1996
• | Number of Pages: 262 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 1568218508
• | ISBN-13: 9781568218502